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Much like all real estate, it all depends on where you bought, when you bought, and what kind of fees are associated with it yearly as well as for subleasing or swapping, etc. It also depends on where you are in relation to it, and your life style.

Sister in law had one for ages in Ormond Beach (a mile or two N of Daytona for non-Floridians) and her yearly costs were about half of what a hotel room for a week went for (this was in early 90s when we joined her for a few days) and she got into it originally with a down payment that was about two weeks stay in a hotel at the time, and she actually got a few thousand when she sold it about 15 years ago.

Her "neighbors" at the beach had actually slowly but surely over a 20 year period bought, sold and swapped units in the place they were in so they ended up with a month from early April thru early May and again in mid October thru mid November. And they were fairly "local" being based in Jax....